Glass Apothecary Bottles with Handwritten Labels from Houle's Pharmacy, Lowell, MA London my grandfather once gifted us

my grandfather once gifted us grandchildren each a bag of walnuts

on its face

which I must say is my favorite of all I have seen

which left the paper slightly darker

Glass Apothecary Bottles with Handwritten Labels from Houle's Pharmacy, Lowell, MA London my grandfather once gifted usI purchased these lovely apothecary bottles from a seller who had bought them some 40 years ago, when Houle's Pharmacy at 462 Moody Street in Lowell, Massachusetts closed its business. I have found records of Houle's in operation at least as early as 1919 at that location, and he bottles themselves, marked MBW USA on their bottoms, were made by Millville Bottle Works in Millville New Jersey, with the mark dating them to sometime between 1903 1930. So,